The Third Miss Symons (Paperback)

from starbox

This is a short but stunning novel, following a spinster daughter from her childhood yearning for love (never fulfilled) through a single romance (that fails to work out) and on into lonely adulthood. When her tenure as lady of the house is cut short (on her father's remarriage) she tries to find...

from startingover

The rather sad tale of awkward, quarrelsome spinster Henrietta, who can't find her place in life. In middle age she spends her time moving from place to place abroad, feeling always the odd woman out, but she is not a sympathetic character, people don't like her, so she is always unhappy. She has...

from startingover

The rather sad tale of awkward, quarrelsome spinster Henrietta, who can't find her place in life. In middle age she spends her time moving from place to place abroad, feeling always the odd woman out, but she is not a sympathetic character, people don't like her, so she is always unhappy. She has...

from Cassandra2020

The Third Miss Symons by FM Mayor - probably better than I think it is: GoodInteresting book, well written about an unpromising topic. The author made me feel sympathy despite my actual feelings about 'Miss Symons' herself.Henrietta is the third daughter and fifth (but not last) child born into a...

from nmhale

Certainly more a novella than novel, and a good thing, too, because the subject matter is just a tad too depressing for my taste. Mayor describes the life of a spinster, from her unloved childhood through unprepossessing middle adulthood, on into her bitter spinsterhood and eventual death. Mayor ...